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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week 100,000 jammed grandstands, pavilions and infield to watch Europe's richest horse race, the Prix de l'Arc-de-Triomphe. Despite devaluation, the mile-and-a-half event for three-year-olds and up paid the winners a whacking $122,857. At post time, a few infield sentimentalists dredged up their last sous to get aboard Rita Hayworth's filly Double Rose. Amour Drake and Val Drake, wearing the funereal black silks of Paris' most dramatic relict, the dashing young widow of Theatrical Magnate Leon Volterra, were the heavy favorites, but form players...
...experts are pessimistic about rockets propelled by nuclear energy. But Britain's nuclear rocketeers are cheery. L. R.Shepherd, technician at the Harwell atomic project (Britain's Oak Ridge), thinks a rocket should be pushed into space by high pressure ammonia gas shooting through a white-hot uranium pile...
Last week, registering at the U. of L., Reporter Amster said happily: "How are you going to know what you want to study until you've been out in the world and learned what you need to know...
...also ate up the weekly's authoritative sport news and lurid stories of "horrid murders, outrageous robberies . . . vulgar seductions," under such titillating or shocking headlines as SNARED BY A SCOUNDREL. AN INNOCENT COUNTRY BEAUTY or ROAST MAN (on a hotel fire). Promotion-wise Publisher Fox sponsored John L. Sullivan's bare-knuckled heavyweight bouts of the '80s, also gave championship belts and medals to rat catchers, oyster openers, bartenders and barbers...
...Brother of Singer Dorothy (Rosalinda) Sarnoff; no kin to RCA Chairman David Sarnoff. *Drs. James L. Whittenberger, Esther Hardenbergh and James V. Maloney...